LLMMedium
Clarkesworld Magazine Reportedly Closed Down Submissions Due to Massive Increase in Purportedly AI-Generated Stories
- Occurred
- Feb 20, 2023
- Published
- Feb 20, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld is reported to have temporarily stopped accepting submissions after receiving an overwhelming increase in purportedly LLM-generated submissions.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Clarkesworld story submitters
Harmed parties
- Clarkesworld
- Clarkesworld readers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Magazine closed submissions due to AI-generated content influx, representing a notable LLM usage incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8